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Inside the Tiny House Movement where more and more Americans have rejected tradition for a simpler..
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2014 | David McCormack

Posted on 08/05/2014 10:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Once upon a time an American family’s home was their castle and the bigger the better, but growing concerns about meeting mortgage payments and the environmental impact of large houses has helped fuel a new movement of people who are happy to live small.

The Tiny House Movement is a growing group of people who are happy to downsize the space that they live in and enjoy simplified lives as a result.

While the average American home is around 2600 square feet, the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; house; smartgrowth; socialism; standardofliving; stupidpeople; thirdworldatlast; tiny
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To: HereInTheHeartland; bigbob

If the house thing doesn’t work out; you can put a few thousand bushels of corn in it.


81 posted on 08/05/2014 11:21:26 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: Vigilanteman; ErnBatavia
I got a couple of those to live in, but life got to be two tents.

(Rim shot)


82 posted on 08/05/2014 11:22:50 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dfwgator

83 posted on 08/05/2014 11:23:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"I saw a local featured on the news- the problem was she didnt have a place to park it (and legally dispose of her waste. I dont have an issue with the lifestyle at all, but they need to be hooked into a waste system..."

Usually these tiny homes are kosher to put in trailer parks. I think it is stupid that you can't place one on property you own in a city. (as long as you hook it to sewer and such)

But the property laws were written in the 40s and 50s with lots of input from the builders and insurance companies. See they want bigger houses so they can make more moola!

84 posted on 08/05/2014 11:24:05 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: C19fan

85 posted on 08/05/2014 11:24:10 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: C19fan
When do we get to call them trailer-park trash like they call us?
86 posted on 08/05/2014 11:24:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Dagnabitt

87 posted on 08/05/2014 11:27:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Liberty Valance

That looks like an agricultural version of a hill country “Sunday Haus”.


88 posted on 08/05/2014 11:30:26 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: C19fan

My dog sleeps in a bigger house than that.

And I don’t even have a dog.


89 posted on 08/05/2014 11:32:48 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: FlJoePa
I tried to watch the awful television show the other night. All I kept thinking was that everyone involved was an idiot.

One show was enough for me. The husband & wife had a 2 YO daughter, and her "bedroom" just barely accommodated her tiny body.

I'm thinking, "this poor child, she'll be teased mercilessly at school. None of her friends will want to visit."

And exactly what do they plan on doing when she's 7 or 8, and has outgrown her bedroom?

Our house is 2500 SF, and we'll be downsizing in a couple of years, if only to get my two 20-somethings out of the house (my youngest will be entering HS, and I want to move closer to church and the HS). By "downsizing", I'm thinking 1700-2000 SF.

90 posted on 08/05/2014 11:32:54 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Rhinoman

I saw the show as well and was astonished at the prices.
A couple of years back I purchased a used 25 foot travel trailer for a little north of 4K. Used campers are priced like used boats.


91 posted on 08/05/2014 11:33:24 AM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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To: dfwgator

would that be Friday morning or Friday afternoon?


92 posted on 08/05/2014 11:35:46 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: C19fan

Note also that their website map shows all liberal enclaves across the US where you can see models. Austin, Asheville, Seattle, Sonoma, and on and on. The guy looking at the model on the front page is wearing clogs. I hate those fuggly looking things. Screams lib.


93 posted on 08/05/2014 11:41:08 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE (Goodbye Mr. Chimps)
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To: GeronL

At least that DOLLAR would be GOLD and worth 1/23 oz of gold.


94 posted on 08/05/2014 11:47:50 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Liberty Valance

That’s from Texas? It sort of looks like Sweetwater in the background, but that kind of country is also found in the midwest...


95 posted on 08/05/2014 12:01:14 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: C19fan

Remember the rules for homesteading on the frontier? You had to file on 160 acres, build a house 12x12.

So everyone went and filed on land and built a 12 inch by 12 inch house to fulfil the claim.

Nothing said you had to live in it at that time.

A friend I knew years ago said that when he was a kid you could homestead on land in Southern New Mexico. The rule was if you wanted to farm you could file on 160 acres.
If you wanted to ranch, you could homestead 640 acres.

So everyone was ranching.


96 posted on 08/05/2014 12:11:22 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: C19fan

........and the difference from a Travel Trailer is ........


97 posted on 08/05/2014 12:14:41 PM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: IronJack

I’d rather live in a shotgun shack than one of those small cells!

Where would I pug my library! My guns! My records! My DVDs! My cat box! My art supplies! My wife! I can cook outside! Room for dogs outside? Where would I sleep!

Somehow Bruce Willis’ room in THE FIFTH ELEMENT comes to mind.


98 posted on 08/05/2014 12:16:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: C19fan

I looked at some alternative housing many years ago. I learned the difference between a camping trailer (self-contained, flimsy construction, propane appliances), a resort trailer (not self-contained, built tough, normal appliances) and a mobile home. These are more like resort trailers in that they always stay on their wheels, get dragged from place to place, and need full hook-ups.

The not-so-tiny, tiny houses really remind me of the Craftsman houses one could order out of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Shipped to site in several crates, the owner put it together or had a contractor build it on a permanent foundation.

I think they’re great for one person or a couple without children.


99 posted on 08/05/2014 12:27:50 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Yours is the best post to this thread.


100 posted on 08/05/2014 12:54:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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